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ISU presentations highlight enrollment growth, budget requests and reworked student-success programs
Summary
Legislative analyst Kevin Campbell and ISU President Rob Wagner briefed JFAC on the university's budget, enrollment, staffing and program changes, including a technical error in tuition fund reporting, FY2026 enhancement requests, and the reorganization of diversity centers into student-success units.
Idaho State University officials told the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee on Jan. 29 that the university is growing enrollment, is making organizational changes aimed at boosting student completion, and has filed several FY2026 budget requests including operational capacity and enrollment-workload adjustments.
Kevin Campbell, a Budget and Policy Analyst with the Legislative Services Office, opened the ISU briefing with statistical and budget details. Campbell said ISU has more than 12,000 students supported by roughly 1,244 full-time-equivalent employees and a base budget of about $171.1 million. He noted a technical error in the tuition-and-fees slide in the committee packet and said he is "tracking down the problem"; he added that a check of State Treasury balances showed ISU had not overdrawn its account.
Campbell provided a breakdown of ISU expenditures and recent budget moves: 74.8% of the university’s expenditures go to personnel, 21.2% to operating expenses and 3.9% to…
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